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  1. 31 Aug 2018

    'Sad day when we can't push those Indians around anymore like the old days'

  2. 11 Jun 2018

    More evidence that many First Nations who signed deals with Kinder Morgan felt they had no choice: some were in desperate economic need & others felt that the government would ignore their opposition and build the pipeline anyway. That is not consent.

  3. 2 hours ago

    And source piece by Haldane is unabashedly a business community set piece where she shows her hand wavering on Indigenous Consent & where the colonizing subordination of Indigenous Ppls authority as quasi-corporations under s91, 92 goes unmentioned. Beware of & Wild

  4. Free, Prior & Informed Consent means have the right to say yes or no & to determine conditions for development in their territories. Together we must arrive at a process that respects rights, title, and .

  5. 15 Apr 2018

    If you want to know how this "Nation to Nation" bullshit is unfolding in Canada, watch today's presser featuring Horgan, Scheer, Notley & Trudeau. Absent?! Indigenous Nations. Indigenous Matriarchs. Indigenous Leadership.

  6. 28 Nov 2018

    ** BREAKING NEWS: Trans Canada is seeking injunction against Freda Huson and Smogelgum. This violates international indigenous and human rights, violates UNDRIP free, prior informed consent Canada’s international minimal standards! Injunctions = thousand trails of tears

  7. 5 Sep 2018

    Try proper consultations with First Nations senator. Learn what Free Prior Informed Consent means. These are our territories after all.

  8. 28 Jun 2018

    “Indigenous partnerships hold the key to conserving Canada’s boreal forests” and partnerships mean more than just money! They mean being equal decision-makers! They mean being invited as equal partners to planning meetings via

  9. 28 Sep 2018

    Warm congratulations from RAN to heroic Indigenous rights activist Joan Carling. Joan has long faced death threats and other forms of intimidation because of her work on behalf of Indigenous Peoples' right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent .

  10. 18 Sep 2018

    The Tsilhqot'in Nation has been granted a temporary injunction against the drilling program and will be appealing the court decision that upholds the permits.

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  11. 20 Apr 2018

    A Band is NOT a Nation. A reserve is NOT a Nation. The Feds know it, so do we. But does your avg. know it? So disingenuous. Calculating. How many actually had a FREE, PRIOR, and INFORMED decision making process for their People?

  12. 12 Sep 2018

    Expropriating land won't work. Get over it senator.

  13. 13 Dec 2018

    Rights to Free, Prior and Informed Consent have been upheld for the community of Xolobeni and Indigenous Peoples’ in South Africa.

  14. 26 Nov 2018

    7. The judgment affirms that international and regional law requires . It grounds this finding not in ILO 169, but on four treaties that are in fact binding on SA: 1. African Charter on Human and People's Rights 2. CERD 3. ICESCR 4. ICCPR

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  15. 11 Dec 2018

    - Environmental Lawyers Association is part of Women Defend Commons, using law to educate & provide legal advice on sustainability & climate change. Learn environmental impact assessments & To change everything, it takes everyone.

  16. 22 Nov 2018

    Most important part of the judgment: Minister is obliged to obtain “full and informed consent” from the community before any mining can commence.

  17. 1 Mar 2018

    As seen in this map, the 16 oil concessions the government of Ecuador plans to auction off later this year directly overlap with the ancestral territories of numerous indigenous communities, who have not been properly consulted -- let alone given their consent.

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  18. 17 May 2018

    REMINDER: May 22 event at Oxfam in DC (also online) Building Community Power through Consent: The Case of Tullow Oil in Kenya via

  19. 15 Apr 2018

    expansion is of "vital strategic interest" to Canada, says Trudeau. This is new rhetoric, laying the groundwork for an argument to infringe Indigenous rights.

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